best documentary ever??

[mailrachit]

which according to you is the best documentary ever made?
i'm a michael moore fan & i just love his documentaries specially sicko

any other recommendations??

[drtoker]

reefer madness!
I'm all for the discovery channel, anything on there is bound to be good.
History channel has some good ones too, but they are a bit dry most times.

[Signa]

reefer madness!
I'm all for the discovery channel, anything on there is bound to be good.
History channel has some good ones too, but they are a bit dry most times.

Seconding RM

[thepuzzler]

If you guys like reefer madness, then check out "Grass". Its narrated by Woody Harrelson and has loads of archive footage (Also has a lot of reefer madness footage too).

Also, my very favourite documentary is: Capturing the Friedmans.

From IMDB:

In the 80's, in the upper-middleclass district of Great Neck, the awarded Professor Arnold Friedman is arrested for possession of some magazines of child pornography. A further investigation of the police discloses that apparently Arnold and his eighteen years old son Jesse molested his young students during their private computer class. Their Jewish family tears apart with the situation and the sentences of Arnold and Jesse.
...
The Friedmans used to document everything about their lives on camera. So you see a nice happy family, litterally get ripped apart from the inside out when the allergations come out.

Incredible documentary..

[gost]

i like The Corporation

always a good watch to see the world turing into what it will become and people resonsible for it.

[Sephiroth]

I have been watching parts of the When We Left Earth, its a documentary on NASA that Discovery has been running. The moon race part of the series is amazing to see what was going on at NASA.

I can't stand Micheal Moore's films, to me a documentary is suppose to document a story, not show clips and voice overs of the filmmaker's opinions. IMO it seems that his films are more about his agenda than the actual subject itself which doesn't seem like a true documentary to me. Yes I have watched some of a Micheal Moore film to see what the hype was about.

[Mels_Smileys45]

King of Kong! Hands down. Close thread

[mfgbypooter]

2 come to mind.

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

Or, for the serious religious type there's Marjoe.

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[themightyroadflower]

hi folks

how you all doing, well i hope?

i recently rewatched two very different and very good documentaries just recently that i would recommend (i watched them both on google video, i think, for free).

1) Crumb: about the infamous american underground comics legend with the bizarre upbringing that molded his warped view of the world and was responsible for some of american cultures most interesting and influencial artwork during the 60s, 70s and early 80s.

2) The Devil and Daniel Johnston: about the cult american singer/songwriter who started off as a chancer and then became a legend (after being championed by influencial bands of the 80s and 90s such as butt hole surfers and nirvana) just as mental illness started to take over his life.

although these are both very interesting and rewarding in their own unique ways, they may not be for everyone as they deal with quite disturbing issues, but they are worhty additions to the documentary as feature genre.

enjoy


all the best

themightyroadflower

[Mels_Smileys45]

1) Crumb: about the infamous american underground comics legend with the bizarre upbringing that molded his warped view of the world and was responsible for some of american cultures most interesting and influencial artwork during the 60s, 70s and early 80s.

Yeah, thats a good one. I have the DVD. Really a strange man and his brother is even worse. I would like to buy some of Crumbs' early work off Ebay.


I willl add that Kurt and Courtney is a good one.

[HelenaP]

Decoding the Exodus- Naked Archeologist (History Channel).

[Mels_Smileys45]

I want to see Chasing Ghosts but they keep sitting on it for some reason. Its about the early Arcade gaming revolution.

[mungopw]

chlorine....Chlorine is not just another film about the history of skating but a documentary that gives a unique view of the pool skating scene as it exists today. The film features loads of skating greats like Steve Alba, Dave Reul, Lance Mountain, Brian Patch, Tony Alva, Steve Olson, Steve Roche, Darrel Delgado, G Man, Dave Hackett, John Torchia and many more. The documentary covers all of the aspects of backyard pool skating from driving around, jumping fences, draining pools, getting busted and some really good skating, of course, including some rare never seen before archive footage. Created by Julie Angel and Milan Spasic. Directed by Milan Spasic.


this is where my pirate roots began if skateboarding is outlawed only outlaws will ride

[HelenaP]

Where's pooter's left nut when you need him?

Maybe if I say his name 57 times...

[Tic3]

Hmm...guess I'm the odd man out.

I prefer my documentaries in the old-fashioned traditional sense:

Nature

Like National Geographic, Wild Kingdom, Nova, etc.

If it ain't got a pride of lions feasting on a zebra's butt or a crocodile chomping on a wildebeest, or a wasp trying screw an orchid, it ain't no documentary.